Revista Poetómanos Año 2 No.5

In this brilliant overview of parodic praxis in the Spanish-American novel during the years 1960-1985, Elzbieta Skłodowska examines several aspects of parody: its role in the renovation of anachronistic forms of discourse (mock-epic) and the re-writing of the canon of the historical novel; its function in transgressing literary formulas (detective novel); its subversive quality in the counter-discourse of women writers; and the relation between parody, satire, irony, humor, and metafiction. This sound analysis of some twenty-five novels, carefully illustrated by works little treated in...

This book analyzes the theoretical aspects of specific humoristic techniques in Gabriel Garcia Marquez. These techniques employ ranges from the use of explicit jokes, hyperbole or textual and cultural carnival, and literary resources such as irony, parody and ambiguity.

A critical edition of the original version of Calderón’s masterpiece, based on the text contained in the Zaragoza Parte (1636). Now republished for the first time since the seventeenth century, the "Zaragoza" version is preceded by a lengthy introductory study in which Ruano offers important evidence and new deductions convincingly to establish that Calderón wrote two versions of La vida es sueño (Life’s a Dream): a first version – the "Zaragoza" play, written probably before 1630 and primarily for performance – and a revised version (1635) for publication in the "Primera parte" of ...

Este trabajo es el resultado de una investigación, de carácter histórico, literario y documental, que ha tenido como objetivo recoger, seleccionar, documentar y estudiar todo el material disponible de y sobre la literatura infantil y juvenil que los españoles crearon en el exilio mexicano, tanto lo que respecta a las obras originales como lo referente al campo de las aportaciones críticas y teóricas. Hemos explorado no sólo la creación literaria sino también la labor de ilustradores, editores, impresores y maestros exiliados, destacando las implicaciones sociológicas y educativas de ...